Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Incomplete but excellent sounding recording, sourced on the "Stonehenge" Vinyl bootleg.
Missing
Train, A Rock And A Hard Place, Floorshow, Emma, Alice and Gimme
Shelter. There's a complete recording sourced on a tape already on the
blog, so you might want to check that one also.

Notes: Excellent FM broadcast from Energy 99 in Monterrey. The only problem is that they are extremely aggressive in reminding the listeners what they're listening to, so the logo phrase pops right up in the middle of some songs, sometimes more than once per track.Other than that, a great show; Robert seems to really be enjoying himself between tracks(despite dodging crazed fan's objects of flight). Pitch may be just a bit slower than it should be.

EAC and FLAC encoding by <rcrawley@gmail.com>.Thanks to L for the trade!Analysis shows this recording was never lossy.

01 Amputation02 April Skies03 Head On04 Far Gone and Out05 Between Planets06 Always Sad07 Mood Rider08 All Things Pass09 Some Candy Talking10 Halfway to Crazy11 War on Peace12 I Hate Rock 'n' Roll13 Just Like Honey (with Bobby Gillespie)14 The Living End (with Bobby Gillespie)15 Never Understand (with Bobby Gillespie)

MoreRibbonsDoctor Jeep/Detonation BlvdAmphetamine LogicA Rock and a Hard PlaceCrash and BurnAliceMarianFirst And Last And AlwaysArmsDominion/Mother RussiaSummerFlood IIJihadVision ThingLucretiaTemple of LoveThis Corrosion

It
seems that gig wasn't well attended and it sounds more like a
soundcheck (with a small audience and many many many mistakes) than a
real gig!
I don't even know if the band left the stage for the encores as there is no break between Pornography and The hanging garden!
The
sound becomes really clear and nearly excellent after The drowning man !
A brilliant recording for a weird gig! You can hear how much the band
needed to practice!
First time for Lament... this song is killing me!

01. Not Long For This World02. The Day That David Bowie Died03. Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?04. Be The Revolution05. Gimme Some Truth*06. Vampire Blues+07. Rock And Roll Babylon08. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven09. Dog-End Of A Day Gone By10. No New Tale To Tell

David J returns to Los Angeles in support of his latest double album, Vagabond Songs. The album fittingly chronicles the time that he has spent on the road over the last year or so. Even at 60 now, J relentlessly tours the world playing well over 150 shows a year. I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Haskins' work ethic and his dedication to his art form and fans. He is arguably the most affible and accessible member of Bauhaus / Love and Rockets. He can usually be found after each show chatting up his fans, signing covers at the bar or while loading his gear. This night was no exception. While other bands and artists are charging increasingly higher and higher amounts for fifteen minute "meet and greets", David J will come to YOUR HOUSE and play an hour long acoustic set in your living room for a nominal fee. In return you can sell tickets publicly or privately to the event to cover the expense.

Tonight's performance was held in a small trendy bar in Thai Town (East Hollywood). The show was FREE. According to the set list, J was slated to play 14 songs. Due to time constraints it appears that his set was cut short to just under an hour. The Love and Rockets' classics "Rain Bird" and "Holiday on the Moon" were cut as well as the seminal "Bela" and a track titled "Anthem". We did get a Rockets heavy set of five of the ten songs played tonight. David was accompanied by his manager/bassist, Darwin Meiners and Michael Berg on piano. There was a theme of protest throughout the night's performance that was sadly lost on most of the bar's patrons that were intent on chatting and hooking up. The background chatter is very prominent for the first 3 songs until the "sound guy/DJ" chose to turn up the levels (VG-). As the show progresses, the chatter diminishes to a respectable level (EX-). For this reason, I chose to record some six feet away from the right speaker (furthest from the bar). David's vocals are very clear and the instrumentation is fairly well balanced. The backing instrumentation tracks that Darwin played from his Mac were jarringly loud at times. Also, we get an impromptu Ziggy infused intro to "The Day David Bowie Died" as J tries to sort out his cables and pedals. David elected to play a nylon string classical guitar for the majority of the evening. It gave the performance a very down to earth, folksy feel. Overall, a great performance. I had only wished that he had played longer. Apparently he had to clear the stage for the house band to play some covers for a stripper / burlesque dancer. Oh well!

Highlights:

"Who Killed Mr. Moonlight" in all of its Vaudevillian glory, the Love and Rockets gem "Be The Revolution" from the oft-overlooked "Hot Trip To Heaven" and the plaintive plea of "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven"! It was like AM/PM! Too much good stuff!

Please support the artist by purchasing his latest album Vagabond Songs or by having him come to your house to play!...

From the Dave Sez archive: outtakes from Television's second album "Adventure", recorded amidst some acrimony at Bearsville Studios, 1978. Playing with Patti Smith from 1975 onwards, Television released the seminal albums "Marquee Moon" (1977) and "Adventure" (1978), but following major conflicts between Verlaine and Lloyd, the group disbanded in summer 1978 with a last gig at the aptly named Bottom Line Club in New York (http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2014/03/television-bottom-line-new-york-usa.html). The group reformed briefly for a further album "Television" and official live CD "Live at the Academy" in 1992, but the reformation did not last long, and the group again fell silent until live gigs in 2001 and following years. Lloyd finally left the group in summer 2007, replaced by guitarist Jimmy Rip.The crown jewels of any Television bootleg collection are the 1975-76 studio demos for the first album (http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2014/03/television-double-exposure-demos-1974.html) and the extremely rare recording of outtakes and extras from the second, presented here in FLAC.

Note that,
where song titles are shown in brackets followed by an asterisk, thus:
(Xxxxxx)*, this indicates a track that has been left out of this
compilation because it has been officially released in one form and
another, these ones have been removed in order to comply with DIME rules
regarding non-inclusion of released material.

Tracklisting :-
=============

THE HUMAN LEAGUE - 1978-08-08 Peel Session
(1. Being Boiled)*
2. No Time
3. Blind Youth
4. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling

Total length (without omitted track) = 11 minutes approx.

The first track is (or was) available as an official mp3 download version from :-

June 30, 1983 was the hottest day of the year to date in Chicago. The now-legendary venue Metro - then known as Cabaret Metro - had been open for roughly a year. While I was just an 11 year old kid cavorting on a beach across Lake Michigan from Chicago that day - or most likely asleep in the summer cottage, considering the time - New Order finally made their debut appearance in Chicago. Attendees say it was unbearably hot inside the Metro that night. And allegedly even hotter on the stage. That day, the high temperature reached near 100° F in Chicago and it had barely cooled as the evening went on. Making matters worse, the band took nearly two hours to get on stage after the opening act, which made an uncomfortable and stinky audience even more strident.

The set starts out as your typical New Order set of the era would. Things seem OK, maybe a bit rowdier crowd than normal, until late in the fourth song “Truth” when the sequencer starts to act up. They launch straight into “Leave Me Alone” which ends uneventfully. Then, the power goes out (as you’d have it). A restless crowd begins complaining amongst itself, with audible complaints about sweat dripping into eyes, another mentioning rubbing ice all over their face, and vocalized thankfulness that they brought paper towels in. Random sequencer bleats punctuate the rumbling crowd, as the roadies and venue staff try to get the power sorted. Hooky mentions needing a shower. Eventually, “Your Silent Face” starts. It devolves into a unique and fascinating exposition on what a sequencer-using band does when the sequencers are failing mid song - Steve Morris jumps behind the drum kit far earlier than usual, and essentially drives the song to its skittering end as the sequencers never recover. I think this take is spectacular and I think you’ll agree.

Barney then makes reference on stage to equipment and power problems, mentions the band’s just going to jam, and Steve then pounds out the drum riff for “Denial”. Instead of jamming, the band then finishes the set with four straight sequencer-free tracks, ending on the majestic “In A Lonely Place” well into the wee hours of the morning.

There is no jamming, no acoustic “Blue Monday” despite the venue owner’s misremembered statements made over the years since. It’s possible of course at some point these did exist and were edited out from this tape upstream, but I doubt it and all other recollections of this gig fail to mention any acoustic “Blue Monday” performances.

For the past 34 years, this set has been legendary in the New Order community due to the circumstances which befell it. And a tape was never known to exist, nor a setlist for that matter. With the 1980 Beach Club set, it was part of the Holy Grail pair of lost New Order sets. That changes today. The story of how this tape ultimately came to me is nearly as good as the story behind the gig, but to protect privacy I shall simply thank A. for this. I believe this is from a 1st generation dub of the master, and whomever the actual taper is remains a complete mystery.

Setlist: Branches/BonesWishLess ThanMarch of the PigsSomething I Can Never HaveThe FrailThe WretchedCloser (with "The Only Time" interpolatin)Copy of AGave UpI Can't Give Everything Away (David Bowie cover)The LoversReptileThe Great DestroyerBurning Bright (Field on Fire)The Hand That FeedsHead Like a Hole